Purchasing evidence: the corollary of evidence-based purchasing
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Purchasing evidence: the corollary of evidence-based purchasing.
The National Health Service (NHS) market led to problems in funding research and development (R&D). The current policy is to resolve these by funding R&D through a national levy on purchasers. The policy does not, however, address the underlying problem that evidence produced by R&D is largely irrelevant to purchasers. The consequences of this policy are likely to be that purchasing will have l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024589